Batch Scripting Jobs

Batch Scripting
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Batch Scripting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Batch Scripting over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 678 876 949
Rank change year-on-year +198 +73 +200
Permanent jobs citing Batch Scripting 14 20 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.020% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.024% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 9 19 29
10th Percentile £49,000 £34,150 £38,100
25th Percentile - £35,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -8.57%
75th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £79,000 £51,500 £55,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £31,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +42.86% -21.25% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Batch Scripting falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Batch Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Batch Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Batch Scripting in the UK

Batch Scripting
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Batch Scripting.

Salary trend for Batch Scripting in the UK

Batch Scripting
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Batch Scripting over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Batch Scripting in the UK

Batch Scripting
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Batch Scripting within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +168 14 £50,000 +11.11% 3
London +105 11 £50,000 +11.11% 1
UK excluding London +208 3 £45,000 +42.86% 3
South East +110 3 £45,000 -34.78%

Batch Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) Azure
2 11 (78.57%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) Nutanix
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) DHCP
1 11 (78.57%) DNS
1 11 (78.57%) LAN
1 11 (78.57%) TCP/IP
1 11 (78.57%) WAN
2 2 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 11 (78.57%) Finance
2 9 (64.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Legal
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Hedge funds
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Windows
1 11 (78.57%) Windows Server
1 11 (78.57%) Windows Server 2012
2 9 (64.29%) Windows Server 2016
2 9 (64.29%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (28.57%) Linux
4 2 (14.29%) CentOS
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Collaborative Working
1 11 (78.57%) Patch Management
2 9 (64.29%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (64.29%) Cost Optimisation
2 9 (64.29%) Incident Management
2 9 (64.29%) ITIL
2 9 (64.29%) Process Improvement
2 9 (64.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (7.14%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Data Strategy
5 1 (7.14%) RBAC
5 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Azure Certification
1 9 (64.29%) MCSE
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 9 (64.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Active Directory
2 9 (64.29%) Hyper-V
2 9 (64.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (64.29%) NetBackup
1 9 (64.29%) SCCM
1 9 (64.29%) SCOM
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
1 11 (78.57%) VMware
2 9 (64.29%) ServiceNow
2 9 (64.29%) SolarWinds
2 9 (64.29%) Veeam